Skipped training on Saturday and Sunday
I got exposed to poison IVY and have several outbreaks.

Last night I watched a movie and
went to bed around 12:45
woke up this morning at 5:45 am

whitney coached
diving well

missed warm up

4 x 100 on 1:10 went fourth in the lane and swam them easy

50 easy

4 x 200 on 2:20 lead the lane

100 easy

4 x 400 on 4:40
went 2nd on #1 then I lead 2 - 4
went 4:20 on #4

150 easy

(I didn't read the board so I had no clue what was coming next)

whitney walked up and said the next thing you're doing is a

500 free FAST for TIME

I told my lane mates I'd go around 5:15
I pushed off and held back on the first 100, concentrating on staying strong and smooth
I wound up swinning the 500 in 5:08!
which is my fastest work out 500
since I've been in masters swimming

I arrived late and missed the 800 warm up and the first 50 of the main set, so I swam a 50 easy then got up and did a fast 100, but I didn't totally go for it, just kept it strong, 2 beat kicked for 75 then picked up my kick on that last 25 meters. This main set doesn't look like much on paper but it is very exhausting. I concentrated on staying long smooth relaxed and attemped to correctly split each swim

Main set
2 rounds of the following

050 fast from a dive for time
050 easy
100 fast from a dive for time
100 easy
200 fast from a dive for time
200 easy
the swims were choice, my choice was free

round 1
50 DNS
100 1:03.5
200 2:19

round 2
50 27.1
100 1:01.1
200 2:16

next set was 3 x 300
100 kick 100 IM 100 kick
this set was easy, most folks wore fins,
I don't use fins so I swam free part of the kicks,
though i did kick a little.

i weighed 214 before practice
still have poison IVY
i'm going to the beach this weekend
I have 6 more practices till I go to Philmont
once I'm there I'll miss 2 weeks of training
my plan once I get back is to build back up and get in great shape for fall short course meters

i weighed 214 before practice
still have poison IVY
i'm going to the beach this weekend
I have 6 more practices till I go to Philmont
once I'm there I'll miss 2 weeks of training
my plan once I get back is to build back up and get in great shape for fall short course meters

Looks like a good workout. What were your intervals for the IM/stroke part of it???

sparky, i often miss all or part of warm ups, i don't recommend it
I don't use an alarm clock I just wake up when I do
my house is 40 miles from the pool
work out begins at 6:30 so I need to walk out the door 5:45
today I rolled out of bed at 5:50. Last night I took some benedryl for my poison ivy and it makes me sleepy.

I'm never sure how the traffic will be, if there's a wreck or construction, it slows me down. Also the later I leave the thicker the traffic will be

I'd rather do some training than none
I don't miss many days and I try to catch most of the main set.
the main set is where progress is made.
Warm up is to get ready for it.

today I arrived when they were pulling the 300
so I swam a 100 then kicked a 100 then we began the main set.

in the first batch of 4 x 100's i felt pretty tight and it was hard to swim a 1:20, when the 4 x 200's arrived I held faster than 1:15
per hundred on the free part. for me there's like a 10 second or mor difference per 100 when I compare my LCM training times with SCY.

on the kicks I'd push off streamline dolphin kick with no board on my back, when I went up for air i kicked on my side with my arms by my side, took 2 one arm strokes to set up my turn.
I picked it up on the 6th kick in each set,

Re: mid-pool rest

there's a mark in the middle of the pool
the pool is 9 feet deep
so we tread water or gently hold the lane rope.

so it's water polo start
ande

Originally posted by Old Flyer Ande,
You have a lot of repeats of 25 or 75 length in LCM workouts. Do you stop mid-Pool? Can you stand there? When you start again do you push from the bottom, or use a water polo start?

Ande, I remember when Eddie had us doing 25s, we would essentially do 50s. We'd stop in the middle of the pool, but two or three seconds before the sendoff, a lot of us would start swimming. Usually the rest was 10 seconds, so the rest was minimal anyway.

It sucks to be in a deep pool and only have a lane rope to grab. It doesn't help. Plus, I swam in the lane next to the girls' distance swimmers, so you couldn't hold on the rope for fear of getting whacked by a freestyle arm going the opposite direction.

I love doing 25s from the middle of the pool (as long as it's a shallow pool) ... and I agree swimming in deep pools only having the lane line is rough ... I think my underarms are callused from it ...